Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-209) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Precious perversions -- Camp sadomasochism in Tennessee Williams's plays -- Laughing with Truman Capote: insult, camp, and gothic excess -- Florence King's queer conservatism and the gender politics of Southern humor -- Rita Mae Brown's queer feminism and the gender politics of Southern humor -- Dorothy Allison's bravado and the comic limits of trauma -- David Sedaris's humor of the postsouthern South: place, race, and queer desire -- Conclusion: Precious perversions and the Southern literary canon.
